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Three Freshman, sole members of a newly formed organization, have arranged the speech, which will come after Thomas' debate with Max Lerner in Boston...
IDEAS FOR THE ICE AGE-Max Lerner -Viking...
Ideas for the Ice Age is a collection of the essays, reviews, social and political theorizing that Economist Max Lerner has written in the last six years for pinko magazines like the Nation and New Republic. These essays are also inspired by the collapse of civilization, chiefly as it affects...
...what and how they write and think these two authors are poles apart. Chamberlin's thinking brings him out at an isolationist position which strangely underestimates the crushing military, economic and political power of Naziism. Max Lerner is a left-handed interventionist because he sees Naziism as a dangerous perversion of a world revolutionary process which he calls the "socialization of democracy." World War II, he believes, must be fought until this perversion is cleared away so that the revolution can go on. He is also aware that the war itself is a pretext for stepping up the revolutionary...
...result of the supposed wreck is an almost universal claustrophobia, a feeling that everybody is trapped by the debris, and that the ways out are worse than the fact of being trapped. The alternative posed by Author Lerner, for example, is totalitarian socialism as an escape from totalitarian fascism. Author Chamberlin, on the other hand, deems it wiser simply to lie low, meanwhile poking in the wreck age, in the hopeless hope that some clue will somehow lead to some other escape...